Word: moral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Copley Theatre is currently presenting 100 unidentified actors in "Created Equal," a 27-scene object lesson which uses the entire sweep of American history to put across its democratic moral. It is a Federal Theatre Project show, ably presented; those who like their stuff will enjoy this. Republicans had better go to the movies...
...Swarthmore, Albert Einstein marched in the procession bareheaded, his great white mane gleaming in the sun. Reading without emotion from a six-page manuscript, Scientist Einstein told Swarthmore's graduates that failure of the modern world to develop a new morality to replace the declining influence of religion had resulted in "a serious weakening of moral thought and sentiment," in "the barbarization of political ways." The surrender of some European nations to "primitive animal instincts," said he, "if persisted in, will destroy civilization, religion and morality...
...Service, chosen for ability to make "a positive contribution to American life." Dr. Urey hoped that large universities would each take a dozen or more refugees, that by the fall at least a thousand would be imported to U. S. campuses. Said the appeal: "The victims whose intellectual and moral lives we ask you to save are found among Catholics, Jews and Protestants...
...Bombs. At a Washington press conference Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles read a Roosevelt-approved moral indignation statement condemning "ruthless bombing of unfortified localities" as "barbarous." Significantly added was the statement that the U. S. still adhered to a non-intervention policy. Night before, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, speaking in Nashville, declared that the U. S. was willing to join in a conference at The Hague for "humanizing" war practices. To an English invitation to America to join in the bombings investigating committee, the U. S. seemed likely to decline, however...
Like any university worth its endowment, Harvard prizes its honors above all other possessions. Consequently it rejoiced in a moral victory last week when a faculty committee investigating the Walsh-Sweezy case found that the university had been clumsy, not dishonorable...